See why this urban Texas school district moved from its original notification service provider to Blackboard Connect™ in order to ensure consistent, reliable communication with parents, staff, and the community.

The administrative team at Burke County Public Schools was very satisfied with Blackboard Connect’s AlertNow mass notification system. However, after using the service for approximately three years, they decided to consider other systems and found that upgrading to the Blackboard Connect™ 5 solution was their best option.

When the administrators at this Washington State school district needed to improve communication between parents and schools, they turned to the Blackboard Connect™ service to deliver targeted messages including attendance, grade threshold, and positive feedback notifications.

Learn how this rural school district in north-central Florida is communicating with a widely scattered population and boosting parental involvement by targeting specifically defined groups with relevant information.

With more than 10,000 students and competition from charter and parochial schools in the region, Traverse City Area Public Schools sought to implement AlertNow to efficiently reach school families and staff on a regular basis, building stronger school-home relationships.

When a gas leak was discovered near Columbus High School, administrators first evacuated students to a secure location and then used Blackboard Connect to quickly contact parents with both incident information and reassurance that studnets were out of harm's way.

Recent prison breaks threatened the safety and security of the Castaic Union School District Community. Multiple school lock downs were enforced and the district needed a way to keep parents informed of the latest information they were receiving from local police. Learn how frequent communication between the school and home kept parents informed of the safety of their children.

When Hurricane Katrina thretened the St. Charles Parish Public School District in late August 2005, the district relied on Blackboard Connect to quickly communicate school closures and safety measures with thousands of parents and community members.

With robust feature set and an online parent portal, AlertNow enables school administrators of a pair of private Montessori schools to communicate directly with their families, supporting efforts to maintain current operations and sharing plans for growth.

When Lyons needed to quickly remind students of upcoming PSAT examinations -- an important first step in preparing students for college entrance exams -- they turned to the Blackboard Connect mass notification service.

Designed for seamless integration with existing information systems, the Blackboard Connect service enabled one of California's leading school districts, La Mesa-Spring Valley, to full automate daily and period attendance without changing procedures.

When rapidly rising flood waters threatened the campuses of Fargo Public Schools, the district used the Blackboard Connect service to communicate school closures and to recruit thousands of volunteers to aid in the sandbagging effort.

When Beaufort County Schools administrators needed to connect with thousands of working parents, they turned to AlertNow service to facilitate messaging on a variety of issues, from attendance to late buses and charges on student cafeteria accounts.

When Lebanon Community School Corporation switched from Blackboard Connect's AlertNow service to School Messenger, they experienced delayed and duplicated messages and had difficulties with its interface, prompting a switch back to the AlertNow service within the year.

When Eudora Unfied School District's existing notification provider failed to live up to promises of automatic data integration, the district switched to Blackboard Connect to simplify and streamline communication to thousands of parents.

When a man with a gun was seen in a campus building elevator, Northwestern University administrators used the Blackboard Connect service to notify tens of thousands of students, faculty and staff on multiple campuses about the threat and send information on potentially life-saving safety protocols.

At Jacksonville State University (JSU), faculty members were concerned that their messages were not effectively reaching students. The Office of Distance Education at JSU selected Blackboard Connect for Learn to provide faculty a better way to communicate with students. Through SMS and text-to-speech phone calls, faculty can now send students timely messages, and students can opt-in to receive automated notifications such as when grades are posted or assignments are due.

When Coppin State University needed to improve one-on-one communication between students and faculty—without handing out personal contact information—they turned to the Blackboard Connect and Connect for Learn services to deliver multimodal academic, enrollment management, and emergency notifications.

At Los Angeles City College, administrators are ensuring that communications remain not only open but fiscally prudent -- essential in today's economic climate -- through the power of the Blackboard Connect service.

When Inter American University needed to communicate with more than 44,000 students on eleven campuses, they truned to the Blackboard Connect service to facilitate both emergency and general outreach messaging.

When the college needed to quickly reach students regarding tuition nonpayment -- and the resulting consequence of dropped classes -- DCCC administrators turned to Blackboard Connect to facilitate nightly payment reminders. Messaging quickly resulted in the retention of 50 to 60 percent of nonpaying registrants.

When a fire in a utility tunnel damaged telecommunications fiber and cut off communications for 36 campus buildings, the University of Notre Dame used the Blackboard Connect service to reach students, faculty and staff with emergency messaging.

When relying on door tags became too costly and labor intensive in the face of budget shortfalls, the utilities department at the city of Santa Maria, California, turned to the Blackboard Connect service to streamline delinquent customer 48-hour shut-off notification.

Read how the city of Framingham leveraged the Blackboard Connect system to notify the community about a host of issues, including criminal activity, hazardous material leaks, missing children, street closures, and public health warnings.

When their existing notification system took more than a day and a half to deliver messages to the county's 36,000 residents, Talbot County administrators switched to the Blackboard Connect service to ensure timely communication in future emergencies.

When city officials realized that many new pet owners -- unaware of the city's licensing laws -- weren't licensing their dogs, Selma began using the Blackboard Connect service to deliver both vaccination and licensing reminders.

When unseasonably heavy rains resulted in town-wide flooding, the Lincoln Police Department leveraged the Blackboard Connect platform to keep the community informed of both road closures and the availability of public safety resources.